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Job description / Role
Souq.com is the largest ecommerce site in the Arab world. Every month, Souq.com attracts more than 41 million visits to its catalogue of more than 8.5 million unique products in 35 different categories, including consumer electronics, household goods, fashion, watches, perfumes, toys, and baby products.
Established in 2005, Souq.com today operates both as an award-winning retail business and an online marketplace that allows SMEs, merchants, brands and distributors to distribute their products online.
With more than 4,000 employees, We have offices and local operations in UAE, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and leading Product and Engineering centers in Jordan and India, offering a unique opportunity to join the leading player in an ever growing and exciting industry.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Code, develop, test, debug, and design new features and micro services
• Help drive the definition of PHP and JS frameworks to support new features and refactor legacy elements
• Develop Integrations with API-driven third-party systems
• Write modular, high-quality code while actively engaging in peer code reviews
• Identify and perform periodic system performance and security optimizations
• Serve as a point of escalation & troubleshooting for all technical related issues.
• Troubleshoot/resolve system issues and support QA testing efforts
• Other development related tasks as required.
Requirements
• 5+ years of professional development experience with LAMP Stack
• Expert-level PHP programming and working knowledge of at least one
• popular MVC framework ( Yii, Laravel, Symfony, Zend, CodeIgniter)
• Strong API design skills with some experience in designing & consuming RESTful web services
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript and jQuery
• A strong grasp of modern infrastructure and deployment methodologies
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Working knowledge of both relational and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, MySQL).
• Experience in common third-party APIs.
• Experience working in a scrum-based Agile environment in big plus.
• Good grasp of design patterns, SOLID & Clean code principles.
• Experience working with Cache layers and patterns (Redis/HBASE/ElasticSearch).
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience in common third-party APIs.
• Experience with Unit and Automation Testing.
About the Company
Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.